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Newspaper
Tipton Advertiser
Location
Tipton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1856
Page
1
In Muscatine and surrounding counties the Democrat party claims a 600 gain amidst a wider defeat. The author rebukes the assertion as unfounded, noting historic county outcomes show balanced or Republican-leaning results with past majorities. The piece questions the credibility of gains and mocks the Democrats for overestimating victory.
In a tone heavy with invective, Mr Long the Slavocratic Post Master at Tipton accuses opponents of falsehoods and trickery over a late issue of the Gowers Ferry Adver tiser. The piece notes the Saturday before the election the newspaper was mailed after the mail had left, and questions why Cedar County residents did not receive it.
A heated letter attacks Democrats and Republicans over postal reform and race politics. It mocks slaveholders and party loyalty, claims the GOP represents 16 states while the Democrats are sectional, and accuses the slaveocrats of nulification and disunion centered on South Carolina.
The Iowa City Repub says the present indications point to a ten thousand Republican majority on the State Ticket, a figure compared to eighty thousand in Ohio. The piece attacks the Democrats for avoiding meetings and accuses them of sectionalism and a dissolving platform. It asserts Iowa votes for Fremont and freedom, praising Constitution and Union.
Opinion piece argues the National party will win southern states via slave representation boosting electoral votes, criticizing Democrats for adopting a national name and labeling them as a decayed party of negro-huggers seeking to dissolve the Union under a stolen banner.
Snyder 51 Sells Auditor of State. Pollard 51 Pattee Treasure of State. Paul 51 Morte Attorney General. Baker 51 Rice State Senate. Swetland 51 Cattell Representatve. Green 51 Wright Representative 3iet Sttrict Haff 50 Wright Clerk District Court, Young 51 Daniels Prosecuting Attorney, Bineel! 51 Huber For a Convention Against Convention PIONFFR.
A sharp denunciation of pro slavery forces and their attacks on the clergy. The piece argues ministers rebuke sin in high places and face slander from Democrat and National factions over Kansas laws, urging readers to see hypocrisy in political use of religion and urging resistance to slave power. The letter-defensive tone defends Brown and Herald of Freedom while critiquing wool-growing rhetoric and political duplicity.
A correspondent denounces Democrats for supporting slaveholding interests as Confederate party labels clash with calls for freedom and Fremont. The letter claims Republicans gain from public sentiment in the North favoring free speech and territories while condemning a sectional national slaveocracy as deceitful.
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